Old Age Is Not A Good Thing.

A Joke Is Necessary At This Time.

Paul Goodman Was Not Ahead Of His Time But In His Time.

My Job Is To Get People To Write Something Truthful, Something About Truth And Beauty - Wherever They Are - And To Understand How Literature Is Made. And Then If They Become Great Writers, That's Great, And Probably Has Nothing To Do With Me.

I Don't Have Any Degrees. I Went To Hunter College One Year And New York University Another Year. It's Just On The Basis Of My Books That I've Been Hired At Any Of The Places I've Been.

I Didn't Write Any Fiction Until I Was Past Thirty.